What Worries Your Clients?

What Worries Your Clients?

We group portfolio risk into two categories: Longevity Risk Drawdown Risk (A form of volatility risk) Risk #2 dominates the minds of most advisors and clients we speak with. Behaviorally, most of us have an aversion to losses. Mathematically, large drawdowns are...
What Worries Your Clients?

Casting a Wider Net

Very few days pass that don’t involve a cast net being thrown at our house. I’m not sure I can think of anything I’d rather do than throw the net with my crew. My kids have grown up learning early and often because in lower Alabama, it’s a necessary skill if you enjoy...
What Worries Your Clients?

A Recipe for Success

Investors should have one goal – to compound capital. A sufficient compounded return is at the heart of all things related to financial goals. That’s our goal in 2024. To provide the best solutions possible to improve your compounded returns, and to be excellent in...
What Worries Your Clients?

Taxation By Inflation

    “By continuing the process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily, and, while the process impoverishes...
What Worries Your Clients?

Enhancing Your Engine (Portfolio Version)

We will build on this note in weeks to come. As you’ve probably heard us say, we think it makes sense to equip portfolios with a stronger engine (stocks), using better brakes (hedges) to stay risk-neutral vs. traditional benchmarks. If you’ve heard us speak...